Sailor & Lula (2010)
Sailor & Lula
“Sailor was reading the Clarion-Ledger he’d bought from a box out front.
“Guess we been real lucky with Pace, peanut,” he said.
Lula looked over the red lumps on her tablespoon at the top of Sailor’s head and noticed that the bald spot on his crown was growing larger. Sailor was supersensitive about losing his hair. Whenever Lula said anything about it, like suggesting he get a weave or try Monoxidil, he got upset, so she ignored the urge to reiterate her feelings regarding the situation.
“Why y...ou say that, sweetheart? I mean, you’re right and all, but what made you think of it?”
Lula stuck the spoon into her mouth.
“Item here in the Jackson paper. Headline says, ‘Sorrow Ends in Death,’ and underneath that, ‘Boy, 12, Hangs Self after Killing Red Bird.’ Story’s out of San Antonio.”
Lula retracted the spoon. “Nothin’ good happens in Texas, I’m convinced.”
“Here it is: ‘Conscience-stricken after he had shot and killed a red bird, Wyatt Toomey, twelve years old, hanged himself here last night.MoreLess
“Guess we been real lucky with Pace, peanut,” he said.
Lula looked over the red lumps on her tablespoon at the top of Sailor’s head and noticed that the bald spot on his crown was growing larger. Sailor was supersensitive about losing his hair. Whenever Lula said anything about it, like suggesting he get a weave or try Monoxidil, he got upset, so she ignored the urge to reiterate her feelings regarding the situation.
“Why y...ou say that, sweetheart? I mean, you’re right and all, but what made you think of it?”
Lula stuck the spoon into her mouth.
“Item here in the Jackson paper. Headline says, ‘Sorrow Ends in Death,’ and underneath that, ‘Boy, 12, Hangs Self after Killing Red Bird.’ Story’s out of San Antonio.”
Lula retracted the spoon. “Nothin’ good happens in Texas, I’m convinced.”
“Here it is: ‘Conscience-stricken after he had shot and killed a red bird, Wyatt Toomey, twelve years old, hanged himself here last night.MoreLess
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